​Maureen Wilks

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Artist, Photographer, Writer

Driving back from the San Juans it's always a pleasant break to stop at the Echo Canyon Amphitheater where blood red varnish drapes down the slick amphitheater walls. The yellowish- whitish sandstone cliffs of the Entrada Formation are capped by a distinctive horizon of gypsum, the Todilto Formation. It's a lovely short walk from the BLM car park into the amphitheater where you can call out and hear the echoes softly return.

​I began to work with this image to create a series of faces after a lovely road trip through the Four Corners in the fall of 2016. My final stop before I reached civilization was Echo Amphitheater.